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LOUIS BEVIER. 

Bishop Place, New Brunswick, N. J. 

Son of Louis Bevier, farmer, and Catherine Van Dyck. He is a 
direct descendant on his father's side, the seventh generation, of Louis 
Bevier, who came from France in 1675, and who was one of the twelve 
patentees who received from Governor Andros in 1677 a grant of land 
for the original Huguenot settlement in New Paltz, Ulster County, N. Y. 
He was born on April 22, 1857, at Marbletown, Ulster County, N. Y., 
on the farm which has belonged to his family since 1715. He received 
his preparation for college by private instruction at Marbletown and at 
Stone Ridge, N. Y. While in college he won a number of prizes, and in 
particular the intercollegiate prize in Greek in the year 1878. He gradu- 
ated with highest scholarship honors. After graduation, he studied at 
Johns Hopkins University for three years, graduating in 1881 with the 
degree of Ph.D., and then spent several years in study abroad, at the 
Universities of Leipsig and Bonn, 1881-82, and at the American School 
of Classical Studies at Athens, 1883. Since 1883 his residence has been 
in New Brunswick. From 1883 to 1885 he Avas Instructor in French at 
Rutgers; Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages, 1885-90, Acting Pro- 
fessor of Latin, 1887-89; Professor of Modern Languages, 1890-93, and 
Professor of Greek, 1893 to the present time. He was secretary of the 
extension department of the college from 1892 to 1904, and has been 
Dean of the college since 1912. He is a lecturer on literary and educa- 
tional subjects, was a member of the State Board of Education of New 
Jersey from 1901 to 1904, State Inspector of High Schools from 1904 to 
1909, member of the State Council of Education of New Jersey (presi- 
dent 1916-17), member of the American Philological Association, member 
of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society. He is the author of a French Grammar, published in 
1896, a Brief Greek Syntax, published in 1904, and of numerous mono- 
graphs, and has contributed largely to periodicals. He is a member of 
the Reformed Church, and in politics is an Independent. On June 19, 
1884, he married, at Yonkers, N. Y., May Dealing, daughter of Samuel 
Dealing and Margaret H. Ralph. His wife died on February 17, 1912. 
Their children are: Louis, born April 22, 1885; May Margaret (Wright), 
born November 27, 1886; and Elizabeth Ralph, born March 19, 1893. 

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HENRY JAMES BOGARDUS, M.D. 
427 Bergen Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

Son of Alfred Bogardus and Harriet Knapp. He is a direct descend- 
ant on his father's side, the eighth generation, from Dominie Everardus 
Bogardus, the first Dutch clergyman on Manhattan Island, who came 
from Holland in 1630. He was born February 15, 1858, at Fishkill 
Landing, N. Y. He resided at Fishkill until 1868, at Yonkers, N. Y., 
from 1868 to 1881, at New York from 1881 to 1888, and at Jersey City, 
N. J., from 1888 to the present time. He was prepared for college at 
schools in Yonkers, and at the Rutgers Preparatory School. After grad- 
uation from college, he studied at the New Brunswick Theological Semi- 
nary, and was licensed by the Classis of Westminster in 1881. From 
1881 to 1883 he studied at the University Medical College, New York, 
and was licensed to practice medicine in 1884. He was Resident House- 
Surgeon at the New York Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled from 
1884 to 1887, and has been attending surgeon to the New York Ortho- 
pedic Hospital from 1887 to the present time. He is also Orthopedic 
Surgeon to the Christ and City Hospitals in Jersey City. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Medical Association, Hudson County Medical So- 
ciety, New Jersey State Medical Society, Physicians and Surgeons Club, 
New York Academy of Medicine, New York Orthopedic Club, and the 
Holland Society. He is consulting surgeon to the New Jersey Orthopedic 
Hospital. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and in politics is a 
Republican. On December 25, 1884, he married, at Yonkers, N. Y., 
Effie E. Luce, of New Vineyard, Maine, daughter of Justin Luce 4nd 
Elizabeth A. Hilman. Their children are: Rollins, born December 8, 
1885 ; Florence E., born October 8, 1881 ; and Henry Luce, born Decem- 
ber 20, 1894. 

FREDERICK JOSEPH COLLIER. ",' \ 

609-611 Warren St., Hudson, N. Y. 

Son of Joseph' 'Aj Collier, a minister of the Reformed Church, 
and of Eliza A. Rowley. He is of Huguenot and English descent. 
He was born on September 23, 1856, at Geneva, N. Y. His preparation 
for college was received in private schools of Kingston, N. Y., and Hud- 
son, N. Y. While in college he received several prizes for Oratory and 
essays, and was valedictorian of the class on graduation. He is a 
member of the Delta Phi Fraternity. After graduation he studied law 
in the office of Isaac N. Collier, Surrogate of Columbia County, and 
acted as Clerk of the Surrogate Court. He was admitted to the Bar at 
Ithaca, N. Y., in May, 1880. He has served as president of the Board of 
Education of Hudson, N. Y., is director of several corporations, and was 
?. member of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee. He is a mem- 



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ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers 
College in 1891, and is also a trustee of the Hudson Orphan and Relief 
Association. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and in politics 
is a Republican. On June 10, 1884, he married Margaret Mulford, 
daughter of James Mulford and Mary Du Bois. He is the author of 
many addresses on topics of current interest. He is senior member of 
the law firm of Collier, Browning & Moy, with offices in Hudson, N. Y. 

EVERETT MALLORY CULVER. 

202 West 86th St., New York, N. Y. 

After graduation from college, he studied medicine in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and graduated in 1881. He then 
continued his studies in Berlin, returning to New York in 1884. Since 
that time he has practiced as a surgeon in New York City. 

JOHN EDWARD ELMENDORF. 

750 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

Son of John Crooke Elmendorf, Prosecutor of Pleas, U. S. Register 
in Bankruptcy, Treasurer of Rutgers College for thirty-three years, and 
Maria Louise Frelinghuysen. His maternal grandfather, Frederick Fre- 
linghuysen, was a general in the Revolutionary Army, and a U. S. Sena- 
tor, and his great-uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen, was a candidate for 
Vice President of the United States with Henry Clay, and later was 
President of Rutgers College. He was born on August 3, 1858, at New 
Brunswick, N. J., and was prepared for college at the Rutgers Prepara- 
tory School. While in college he won the Brodhcad Classical Prize, and 
the prize for Junior Exhibition in 1877. He is a member of the Delta 
Phi Fraternity, and of Phi Beta Kappa Society. After graduation, he 
studied law in the offices of his father, and of Hon. A. V. Schenck of 
New Brunswick. He also continued his work at Rutgers, receiving the 
degrees of M.A. and Bachelor of Philosophy in 1881. In 1882 he was 
admitted to the Bar as attorney in New Jersey, and has since been ad- 
mitted as counsellor in New York and New Jersey. His residence until 
, 1916 was in New Brunswick. He has held the following positions: Master 
of Chancery in New Jersey, member of the Middlesex County Board of 
Education, member and president of the Board of Water Commissioners 
of New Brunswick, member and president of the Board of Excise Com- 
missioners of New Brunswick, member of the Board of Commissioners 
for the Adjustment of Taxes. He has been a member of the Humane 
Society of New Brunswick, the Union Club of New Brunswick, and a 
trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick. In politics 
he is a Republican. On August 17, 1887, he married Helen Aline Decker, 
daughter of Lionel David Decker and Mary E. Decker. Their children 
are Louise Frelinghuysen, Dumont Frelinghuysen, and John Edward, Jr. 
His two sons are graduates of Rutgers, 



6 CLASS OF 1878 

NICOLL FLOYD ELMENDORF. 

Died November 19, 1890. 

Son of the Rev. Dr. John Elmendorf of the Collegiate Reformed 
Church of Harlem. He was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1857. After 
graduation from college he studied law with Judge Nelson of Pough- 
keepsie, and was admitted to the Bar. He was connected for some tim'e 
with the law firm of Tenbroeck & Van Orden in New York City, but 
before his death he built up a large practice of his own in New York. 
He died in 1890. 

CHARLES EVERETT. 

Belmar, N. J. 

Son of Charles Randall Everett and Julia Ainse Hooper. He was 
born near Princeton, N. J., May 19, 1854. He resided at Dayton, N. J., 
and was prepared for college for three years in the Brainard Institute 
and for one year in the Rutgers Preparatory School. He graduated in 
1878, and was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
After graduation he attended the Princeton Theological Seminary, and 
was licensed, April, 1880, at the Presbytery meeting in Allentown, N. J. 
He was ordained by the Monmouth Presbytery, and installed, on June 14, 
1881, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Englishtown. On Febru- 
ary 15, 1893, he was installed as pastor of the Belmar Presbyterian 
Church. He has been a member of Presbytery, a Moderator of vacant 
churches, Moderator of the Monmouth Presbytery, a delegate to the 
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. He married, September 8, 1881, Sarah Ella Polhemus, of 
Middlebush, N. J., daughter of Tunis Du Bois Polhemus and Elizabeth 
Hoagland. His son, Ainslie, born December 10, 1882, entered Rutgers 
with the class of 1905, but died April 27, 1903, in his sophomore year. 
His brother-in-law. Rev. C. H. Polhemus, graduated from Rutgers in 
the class of 1877. 

JOPIN BLAIR GIBBS. 

Died June 12, 1898. 

Son of Alfred Gibbs, Major in the 7th U. S. Cavalry, Brevet-Major- 
General, of tlie class of 1846 in the United States Military Academy at 
West Point, who served in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, and of 
Peggy Tonshee Blair. On his father's side he was of New England 
Colonial stock, numbering among his ancestors George Gibbs, geologist, 
Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, and Oliver Wolcott, Gov- 
ernor of Connecticut and signer of the Declaration of Independence. On 
his mother's side he was of Virginia Colonial stock, and took his name 
from the Rev. John Blair, Professor of Theology in the College of New 



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Jersey. He was born September 25, 1858, at Richmond, Va. In his 
boyhood he resided at Fort Union and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Fort 
Riley and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, New York City, and New Bruns- 
wick. He was prepared for college at the Rutgers Preparatory School. 
He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. After gradu- 
ation in 1878, he studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 
receiving his degree of M.D. in 1881, and continued his medical studies 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, and also in 
Vienna. He practiced surgery in New York City until 1898, when he 
volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War, and was appointed 
Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy. He was killed in action at 
Guantanamo Bay, June 12, 1898. During his residence in New York 
City he was house physician of the Lebanon and other hospitals, and a 
member of the University Club. He was not married. 

SEI-ICHI KUDO. 

Died December 15, 1906. 

He was born in Japan, and came to the United States in 1872, at 
which time he could neither speak nor understand English. He studied 
English and finished his preparation for college in Millstone, N. J., living 
in the home of Rev. E. T. Corwin. He entered college in 1874. He was 
a member of the Philoclean Literary Society, and ranked high in scholar- 
ship standing, being elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
After graduation, he continued his studies at Rutgers, receiving the de- 
gree of A.M. in 1881. He then returned to Japan, and from 1881 to 
1883 was Professor of Physics in Sapporo Agricultural College. He 
later became Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the school of the 
American Episcopal Mission in Tokyo. He was lecturer on educational 
subjects in Japan, and was an author. At one time he assisted Dr. David 
Murray in his work in Japan. He was married. He died in Tokyo in 
1906. 

GEORGE LE FEVRE. 

Forest Glen, N. Y. 

Son of Abraham Le Fevre, farmer, and Margaret Du Bois Elting. 
He was born at Forest Glen, N. Y., April 24, 1856. He was prepared 
for college at the New Paltz Academy and entered Rutgers College in 
1874. After graduation, he studied in the New Brunswick Theological 
Seminary, was licensed by the Classis of Kingston, N. Y., in 1881, and 
ordained by the Classis of Hudson, N. Y., in 1882. He was pastor of 
the Livingston Memorial Church at Linlithgo, N. Y., from 1882 to 1886, 
and of the Presbyterian Church at Ancram Lead Mines, N. Y., from 
1886 to 1897. Since then he has been a minister without charge in the 
Presbyterian Church. He is independent in politics. On April 28, 1886, 



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he married, at Germantown, N. Y., Sarah Miller, daughter of the Hon. 
Amos Miller. They have no children. His brother, Solomon Le Fevre, 
graduated from Rutgers in 1882. 

WILLIAM BURNHAM MARSHALL. 
Died September 16, 1881. n 

Son of Arthur Ward Marshall, teacher, and Caroline Ward Trum- 
bull. His mother was a great-granddaughter of Jonathan Trumbull, 
Colonial Governor of Connecticut, and the original "Brother Jonathan," 
friend and advisor of Washington; also a granddaughter of Major Jere- 
miah Bruen, one of Washington's aides at Valley Forge. He was born 
on April 10, 1858, at Valparaiso, Chili, and resided later at Kingston, 
N. Y., New Brunswick, N. J., and Metuchen, N. J. He was prepared 
for college by his father, together with one year's private instruction at 
Elizabeth, N. J. He entered college in 1874, and maintained a high 
grade of scholarship. After graduation he became a teacher in the New 
Brunswick High School, residing in Metuchen, and taught for three 
years. In July, 1881, he took a position in the Edison lamp factory at 
Menlo Park, which he held until shortly before his death, in September, 
1881. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics was 
a Republican. His avocation was nature study. Two brothers, John 
Trumbull Marshall of the class of '81, and David Trumbull Marshall of 
the class of '87, are alumni of Rutgers. He was unmarried. His short 
career as a teacher was very successful, and his promise of success in 
business was very great. 

JOHN HULL McLEAN. 
Deceased. 

After graduation from college he studied law in the Columbia Law 
School and graduated in 1881. He later turned his attention to farming, 
and resided on the Hull farm in Eatontown, N. J. 

OTTO EMIL MEYER. 
Alstead Centre, N. H. 

Son of Rev. Carl Meyer, D.D., Professor of Modern Languages and 
Literature in Rutgers College from 1869 to 1901, and Augusta Michaelis. 
He was born at Homburg, Germany, September 17, 1858. He resided at 
Homburg and at Wernigerode, Germany, until his family removed to 
America. His early education was received in Germany, and later for 
four years in the Rutgers Preparatory School. He entered college in 
September, 1874. After graduation he engaged in shipping and in the 
wall-paper business. On June 7, 1904, he married Amelia Mcintosh, 
daughter of Brigadier-General John B. Mcintosh, and of Amelia Stout. 



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They have no children. He resided in New Brunswick until 1910, and 
since then, having retired from business, at Alstead Centre, N. H. He 
is a member of the Reformed Church, and is a Republican in politics. 
His favorite recreations are hunting and fishing. His older brother, 
Charles, graduated in the class of 1874. 

HENRY MERRILL ORNE. 

215 West 23d St., New York City. 

Son of Henry Augustus Orne, a lawyer, and Anna Goodman Merrill. 
He was born in Memphis, Tenn., January 25, 1859. He resided later in 
Pittsfield, Mass., Doylestown, Pa., AUentown, Pa., and New Brunswick, 
N. J. He was prepared for college at the Rutgers Preparatory School. 
He entered college in 1874, was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Frater- 
nity, and at graduation was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After 
leaving college he went into business, residing in New York, Brooklyn, 
Elizabeth, N. J., Newark, N. J., and Ridgewood, N. J. In 1889 he be- 
came Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York 
City, and has held that position to the present time. He is a member of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Republican. His 
favorite sport is golf. On June 10, 1889, he married Harriet Josephine 
Orvis, daughter of Joseph Upham Orvis and Elizabeth Mazro. Their 
chil4ren are : Beatrice, born 1894, died 1898, and Evelyn, born April 5, 
1900. 

JAMES HENRY OWENS. 

Macon, Ga. 

Son of Henry Macy Owens and Mary Elizabeth Van Wyck. He 
was born January 4, 1857, at Hyde Park, Duchess County, N. Y., and 
later resided at Pleasant Valley, N. Y., and at Yonkers, N. Y. He was 
prepared for college at the Rutgers Preparatory School, and entered 
in 1874. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After 
graduation he studied in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary ; was 
hcensed by the Classis of Westchester in 1881 ; ordained at Fairfield, 
Essex County, N. J., by the Qassis of Passaic, June 15, 1881. He has 
been in active work as a pastor in the Reformed Church from 1881 until 
1886, and since then in the Presbyterian Church : in Fairfield, N. J., 1881- 
84; in Bushnell, III, 1884-86; in Perth Amboy, N. J., 1886-93; in Pater- 
son, N. J., 1894-1913 ; in Macon, Ga., 1913 to the present time. In 1907 
he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Lafayette 
College. In politics he is a Republican. On June 1, 1881, he was mar- 
ried, at Jamesburg, N. J., to Letitia Kirkpatrick Van Nuis. Their chil- 
dren are : Benjamin, born September 16, 1883 ; Helen, born December 19, 
1886; and Edwin, born March 16, 1889. 



10 CLASS OF 1878 

CORTLANDT PARKER, JR. 

Newark, N. J. 

Son of Hon. Cortlandt Parker of the class of 1836, a prominent and 
distingilished advocate at the Bar of the State for over fifty years, and 
of Elizabeth Wolcott Stites. He was born in Newark, N. J., August 17, 
1857; attended the Newark Academy, St. Mark's School, Southboro, 
Mass., and the Pingry School, Elizabetli, N. J. In college he won the 
gold medal at the Sophomore Exhibition. He is a member of the 
Zeta Psi Fraternity. After graduation he studied law in the Columbia 
Law School, taking the degree of LL.B. in 1881. He was admitted to the 
Bar in June, 1881, and practiced with the firm of A. Wayne Parker. He 
resides in Newark, N. J. He served for a short time as United States 
District Attorney. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
and in politics is a Republican. His brother. General James Parker, was 
a member of the class of 1874 until he entered the United States Military 
Academy at West Point. 

WILLIAM HENRY SCUDDER. 

Died May 26, 1911. 

Son of Rev. Jared W. Scudder, D.D., and of Julia Clayton. He was 
born at Vellore, India, on February 10, 1857. While in college he was 
a member of the college crew, of the college baseball team, of the Glee 
Club, and was Business Manager of the Targum Association. He was 
a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After graduation he entered 
the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, graduating in 1882. From 
1882 to 1884 he was pastor of the Grove Reformed Church of New 
Durham, N. J. He then entered the Congregational ministry, and had 
the following charges : Assistant, Plymouth Church, Chicago, 111., 1884- 
85 ; First Congregational Church, Aurora, 111., 1885-87 ; Plymouth Church, 
San Francisco, Cal., 1887-90; First Congregational Church, Norwich, 
N. Y., 1891-96; First Congregational Church, Tacoma, Wash., 1896-99; 
Park Church, Berkeley, Cal., 1901-06; and First Congregational Church, 
Rio Vista, Cal., 1906-10. In 1910 he retired on account of ill health. On 
September 27, 1882, he married, at Clifton, Staten Island, N. Y., Mary B. 
Hedley, daughter of John H. Fledley and Annie Sturges. They had ten 
children, eight of whom are living. He died at Petaluma, Cal., in 1911. 

JOHN LAWSON SENIOR. 

Waver ly, Kansas. 

Son of George Senior, a merchant, and Mary Ann Lawson. He was 
born on November 7, 1854, in Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y., and 
was prepared for college in the schools of that place. While in college 



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he became a member of the Alpha Sigma Chi, later the Beta Theta Pi 
Fraternity. He studied law after graduation, in Goshen, N. Y., and in 
Montgomery, N. Y., and in 1880 was admitted to the Bar at Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. In the same year he went to Waverly, Kans., where his residence 
has been from that year to the present time. In 1882 he engaged in the 
banking business, opening the first bank in Waverly. From 1889 to 1893 
he served in the State Senate of the 15th Senatorial District. He has 
served live terms as Mayor of Waverly, and has been for twenty-five years 
a member of the Board of Education of that place. He is now cashier of 
the Commercial State Bank of Waverly. He is a member of the Presby- 
terian Church, and is a Republican "stand patter" in politics. On Janu- 
ary 31, 1883, he married, at Waverly, Kans., Anna C. Egan, daughter of 
Jerome and Lucy Egan. Their children are : Renwick Joseph, born No- 
vember 14, 1884; Lucy, born January 31, 1886; John Garret, born August 
1, 1888; Mary Bella, born October 14, 1889; Lawson Jerome, born Octo- 
ber 7, 1899 (died June 17, 1900) ; and Marguerite Honore, born February 
14, 1902. 

GEORGE EDWARD STUBBS. 

121 W. 91st St., New York City. 

Son of Rev. Alfred Stubbs, S.T.D. (Columbia), a clergyman of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church, a graduate of Yale and member of the Skull 
and Bones Society, and of Emily Houghton. He was born April 3, 1857, 
in New Brunswick, N. J. His early life was passed in Princeton, N. J., 
and in New York City. He was prepared for college in Burlington Col- 
lege (N. J.), two years; Princeton Preparatory School two years, and 
Keble Hall, New York City, two years. He entered college in 1874. He 
is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. After graduation 
he became a professional organist and choirmaster, at Baltimore, Md., 
three years, at Middletown, Conn., and afterwards in New York City. 
He was organist and choirmaster at St. James' Church, New York, from 
1886 to 1892, instructor in Ecclesiastical Music in the General Theologi- 
cal Seminary, 1889 to 1903, and organist and choirmaster at St. Agnes' 
Chapel, Trinity Parish, from 1892 to the present time. In 1905 he re- 
ceived the degree of Doctor of Music from the University of the South. 
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His favorite sports 
are boating, hunting, golf, and tennis. On July 24, 1879, he married 
Maude Le Jeune. Their children are: Maude Le Jeune, born May 16, 
1880; Eric Walter, born January 11, 1887; Erling Aubrey, born Novem- 
ber, 1889; and Violet Houghton, born November 23, 1894. His rela- 
tives among the alumni of Rutgers are Alfred H. Stubbs '61, Francis H. 
Stubbs '66, and Roland H. Stubbs '76. He is the author of "Practical 
Hints on the Training of Choir Boys," 1888, Novello & Co., London ; 
"The Choir Service Book," H. W. Gray Co., New York, 1902; "The 



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Church Service Book," H. W. Gray Co., New York, 1906; "The Counter 
Tenor Voice," H. W. Gray Co., New York, 1908, and various essays on 
church music. 

EGBERT TEARS. 
Died January 27, 1880. 

He was born at Montgomery, N. Y., on March 22, 1856. While in 
college he held a number of offices, and was especially prominent in 
oratory, being Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Orator. He was a member 
of the Philoclean Society and of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After 
graduation he entered the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, but 
was forced to give up his studies on account of ill health. He spent part 
of 1879 in Texas for his health, and went from there to St. Paul, Minn., 
where he died on January 27, 1880. 

HOWARD DAVIDSON TERHUNE. 
Hackensack, N. J. 

Son of John Terhune, bookseller and publisher in New Brunswick, 
N. J., and of Mary J. Davidson. His paternal grandfather was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War, and his father in the War of 1812. He was 
born at New Brunswick, N. J., December 16, 1859, and was prepared 
for college at the Rutgers Preparatory School. After graduation he 
studied law at the Columbia Law School, 1880 and 1881, and at the ofifice 
of Cortlandt and R. Wayne Parker, Newark, N. J., and was licensed as 
attorney at Trenton in November, 1881. He practiced law from 1882 
to 1884, when he went into the banking business. He has been cashier of 
the Hackensack National Bank from 1889 to the present time. He is 
president of the Hackensack Land Company, a director of the Hacken- 
sack National Bank, of the Hackensack Trust Company, and of the Hack- 
ensack River Brick Company, a governor of the Hackensack Club, and 
vice president of the Oritani Field Club. He resided at New Brunswick 
till 1882 ; at Paterson, 1882-84 ; at Matawan, 1884-89 ; and at Hackensack 
from 1889 to the present time. In politics he is an Independent. His 
favorite sport is baseball. On December 21, 1881, he married Jennie M. 
Cadmus, daughter of Cornelius J. Cadmus and Rachel Ackerman. They 
have two children : John Creswell Terhune, born March 23, 1886, and 
Elizabeth Terhune, born October 5, 1892. He has two nephews and one 
grand-nephew among the alumni of Rutgers. 

JOHN VAN DER POEL, M.D. 

56 W. 52d St., New York City. 

Son of Samuel Oakley Van der Poel, M.D., LL.D., president of the 
Medical Society of the State of New York 1879, president of the New 



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York County Medical Society 1880, Health Officer of the Port of New- 
York 1872-80, and of Gertrude Lansing Wendell, daughter of Peter 
Wendell, M.D., of Albany, N. Y., Chancellor of the Regents of the Uni- 
versity of the State of New York, 1840-49. On his father's side he was 
descended from Wynant Gerritse Van der Poel, who came from Dor- 
drecht, Holland, in 1650. He was born in Albany, N. Y., February 20, 
1858, and later resided for a time at Quarantine, Staten Island, N. Y. 
He was prepared for college at the Albany Boys' Academy, and later at 
a private school on Staten Island, and Rutgers Preparatory School. Dur- 
ing his college course he was editor of the Targum, and also Senior Class 
president. After graduation he studied medicine in the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Columbia, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1881 ; 
was interne in the New York Hospital, and later in the Mount Sinai 
Hospital, N. Y., and continued his studies in Leipsic, Berlin, and Vienna 
during 1883 and 1884. On returning from Europe he took up the prac- 
tice of medicine in New York City. He has served as clinical lecturer 
on genito-urinary diseases in New York University and Bellevue Medical 
College, 1900-12; Assistant Attending Surgeon Genito-Urinary Depart- 
ment, Bellevue Hospital, 1907-12; Chairman of the New York Academy 
of Medicine, Genito-Urinary Section, 1909-10; President of the American 
Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, and Secretary of L'Association 
Internationale d'Urologie, 1908 to the present time. He was president in 
1906 of the Alumni Association of the New York Hospital. He is a 
member of the Reformed Church, and is a Republican. He is immarried. 
Two brothers, Samuel Oakley Van der Poel, M.D., 73, and Herman 
Wendell Van der Poel '77, graduated from Rutgers. He is the author of 
two medical treatises on subjects connected with his specialty, published 
in 1902 and 1906 by William Wood & Co., and of numerous articles pub- 
lished in medical journals. 

JOHN SMALLEY LETSON VAN DEVENTER. 
Died March 21, 1889. 

Son of John Van Deventer. He was born at New Brunswick, N. J., 
in 1859. While in college he was a member of the Peithessophian Lit- 
erary Society and of his class baseball team. After graduation in 1878, 
he studied medicine, first with Dr. Henry R. Baldwin of New Brunswick, 
and later at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, 
where he received the degree of M.D. in 1880. He then returned to 
New Brunswick and began the practice of medicine. He later removed 
to Jersey City, N. J., and had secured a large practice, when ill health 
made it necessary for him to move to Denver, Col., where he died in 
1889. His widow, formerly Eva Dawson of Roxborough, Pa., and one 
child survive him. 



14 CLASS OF 1878 

HENRY CONE VAN DOLSEN. 

Died in 1889. 

He was born in 1857. While in college he was a member of the 
Peithessophian Literary Society, secretary of the Senior class, and a 
director of the Targum Association. After graduation he studied at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, receiving the 
degree of M.D. in 1882. He practiced medicine in New York from 1882 
until his death in 1889. 

JONAH VAUGHAN. 

Died in 1913. 

Son of Z. Morton Vaughan, a farmer and a carpenter, twice a State 
representative, and once a Senator in Maine, and of Clarissa McLean. 
On his paternal side he came of old New England stock — the first settler, 
George Vaughan, came to this country about 1640, and Jabez Vaughan, 
his grandson, was an officer in the Revolution. He was born April 
30, 1851, in New Vineyard, Me. He was prepared for college at 
the local high school and at the Rutgers Preparatory School. He entered 
college in 1874, and after graduation studied in the New Brunswick 
Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1881 by the Classis of New 
Brunswick, and was minister of the Franklin Furnace Reformed Church 
from 1881 to 1885 ; at Orvasco, N. Y., from 1885 to 1891 ; at Livingston, 
N. Y., from 1891 to 1902; and at Belfast, Me., from 1902 to 1913. In 
politics he was a Republican. His avocation was farming. He was 
twice married: on September 3, 1885, at Athens, N. Y., to Anna E. Van 
Hoesen; and on August 28, 1895, to Emma E. Geralsek. By his first 
wife he had two children: Agnes B., born October 15, 1886, and Julia 
K., born July 7, 1889. His brother, the Rev. William Vaughan, gradu- 
ated from Rutgers in the year 1880. 



WILLIAM WALLACE ANDERSON. 
762 Avenue A, Bayonne, N. J. 

After leaving college he studied law, and has practiced in Bayonne, 
N.J. 

JOHN HENRY BANTA. 
Died August 20, 1907. 

Son of John Richard Banta and of Mary Ann Cadmus. He was born 
at Dundee Lake, Bergen County, N. J., on September 27, 1853. He re- 
mained in college for two years, and after leaving in 1876 studied at the 
Bellevue Medical College in New York City, where he graduated in 1879 



CLASSICAL SECTION 15 

with the degree of M.D. In 1880 he began to practice his profession in 
Paterson, N. J., where he continued until his death. He was for a long 
time a member of the United States Pension Board for the district. He 
was connected with the Prudential Life Insurance Company for twenty- 
seven years, and for several years was chief medical examiner. He was 
also a member of the Paterson Board of Health. On September 1, 1881, 
he married Charlotte S. Durming. His widow and two sons survive him. 
He died August 20, 1907. 

JOHN BLOOMFIELD BEEKMAN, M.D. 

Bedminster, N. J. 

Son of John Beekman, a farmer, and Fannie A. Stiger. He was born 
January 5, 1854, at North Branch, N. J. He was prepared for college at 
the Somerset Classical Institute at Somerville, N. J. He remained in 
college one year and was a member of the Alpha Sigma Chi Fraternity. 
He attended the Medical School of the New York University 1879-1881, 
and received the degree of M.D. in 1881. He has practiced medicine at 
North Branch, 1881-84, at Pluckamin 1884-1902, and at Bedminster from 
1902 to the present time. He has been vice president of the Somerset 
County District Medical Society (1906), a member of the American 
Medical Association since 1907. He is a member of the Reformed 
Church, and is a Republican. On June 20, 1882, he married, at North 
Branch, N. J., Marie Ludlow Doolittle, daughter of Rev. P. M. Doolittle, 
D.D., and Anna Ludlow. Their children are : Effie Bloomfield, born 
June 15, 1889; Anna Doolittle, born July 14, 1893; and Henry M., born 
October 31, 1894. His brother, Henry M. T. Beekman 77, is a graduate 
of the college. 

GARRET STORY CONOVER. 

Deceased. 

After leaving college he engaged in business in New Brunswick. 

JOHN GOLDEN DORRANCE, M.D. 

549 Riverside Drive, New York City. 

Son of John Dorrance, a business man, and Rhoda Schanck Golden. 
Born at Carbondale, Pa., April 14, 1856, and later resided at Freehold, 
N. J. He was prepared for college at the Freehold Institute, and by 
private tutors. He entered college in 1874, distinguished himself for 
excellence in declamation and oratory, and was a member of the Chi Phi 
Fraternity. He left college at the end of the Sophomore year, to enter 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, and graduated with 
the degree of M.D. in 1879. He resided at Nyack, N. Y., from 1880 to 
1900; in Yonkers from 1900 to 1910; and since that date in New York 



16 CLASS OF 1878 

City. After a few years of practice he abandoned medicine and engaged 
in the organization and management of insurance companies. He is now 
president of the Baltic Trading Co., and secretary of the American Piano- 
graph Co. He was for several years president of the Nyack Country 
Club. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a Republican. 
His avocation is gardening and floriculture. On November 10, 1880, he 
married Frances Allaire Hegeman, daughter of Rev. Charles S. Hege- 
man, D.D., and Mary Voorhees. They have one child, Frances E. Dor- 
rance, born November 11, 1890. His brother, Charles P. Dorrance '73, 
and his brother-in-law. Rev. Asher Anderson, D.D., '70, are graduates of 
Rutgers. 

WILLIAM EDWARDS FERGUSON. 

Deceased. 

He was a real estate agent in New York City. 

FREDERICK FITCH FOLGER, JR. 
Died February 25, 1883. 

He entered college in 1874. He was president of the Freshman class, 
a member of the Philoclean Society, a director of the Rutgers College 
Boating Association, and a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity. After 
leaving college in 1876, he was a bookkeeper by profession. He died 
suddenly on February 25, 1883, at Hudson, N. Y. 

JOHN ADAM FRECH. 

Somerville, N. J. 

Son of George M. Freeh, lumber merchant, township committee- 
man and school trustee, and of Barbara Heim. His parents were 
Germans. He was born July 3, 1856, at Annandale, N. J. He was pre- 
pared for college by Dr. Cornell of Somerville, and O. H. Hoffman of 
Lebanon, N. J. After two years in college he studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the Bar in 1880. Since then he has resided and practiced law 
in Somerville. He has been a member of the County Counsel for twenty- 
seven years. In politics he is a Democrat. On July 25, 1908, he married, 
at Philadelphia, Pa., Elizabeth Creveling, widow of D. E. Hoffman, and 
daughter of G. V. Crevehng, of Annandale, N. J. They have no children. 

RICHARD WRIGHT HERBERT. 
Wickatunk, N. J. 

Son of John W. Herbert, farmer and business man. Judge of County 
Court, Chairman of County Board of Assessors for thirty years, and 
Agnes D. Wright. He was born August 27, 1859, at Wickatunk, N. J., 
and was prepared for college at Matawan, Freehold, and at the Rutgers 



CLASSICAL SECTION 17 

Preparatory School. After one year in college, where he distinguished 
himself as a sprinter and also in football, he returned to Wickatunk and 
devoted himself to farming and public life. He was a member of the 
County Tax Board for ten years, was a State Commissioner at the St. 
Louis, the Jamestown, and the Seattle Expositions, represented the State 
at international tax conferences at Milwaukee, Denver, San Francisco, 
etc. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. His favorite sport is roque, in which he held the championship 
for two years. He is unmarried. His brother, John W. Herbert '72, is 
an alumnus and a trustee of the college. 

AUGUSTUS MANNING PRICE. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Son of George Townley Price, a merchant, and of Sarah Maria Con- 
over. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., November 11, 1856, and 
resided later at Red Bank and Freehold. He was prepared for college at 
the Rutgers Preparatory School. After two years in college he entered 
the law office of Mirabeau L. Towns, and was admitted to the Bar in 
Brooklyn in 1879. He practiced law at Riverhead, Long Island, for some 
years, and then in Brooklyn from 1884 to the present time. He is a mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church, and has been a trustee of the Lewis 
Avenue Congregational Church of Brooklyn. On December 27, 1881, 
he married, at Riverhead, Long Island, Isabelle Graham Edwards, 
daughter of George T. Edwards. They have no children. His brother, 
William H. Price of '76, is a graduate of Rutgers. 

REV. DAVID H. SCHOCK. 

Pitman, N. J. 

Son of Rev. Edward Schock and Katharine Lindemuth. He was 
born February 13, 1840, at Germantown, Pa., and was prepared for college 
at Pennington Seminary. He had previously studied at the Drew Theo- 
logical Seminary, and was licensed at Burlington, N. J., in 1867. After 
a year and a half at college, he resumed his work as a minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, holding charges : in Bridgeton, N. J., three 
years ; Trenton, four years ; Asbury Park, three years ; Camden, one 
year ; Merchantville, two years ; Philadelphia, four years ; Island Heights, 
N. J., five years ; Englishtown, N. J., two years ; Linnwood, N. J., four 
years; Pitman, N. J., nine years. In 1881 he received the honorary de- 
gree of A.M. from Dickinson College. He has been secretary and super- 
intendent of the New Jersey Conference Camp Meeting Association since 
1897. In politics he is a Republican. On December 13, 1866, he mar- 
ried, at Linnwood, N. J., Susan E. Risley, daughter of Samuel R. Risley. 
They have three children : Julia R., Edson B., and Josephine T. He is 
the author of a volume of poems. 



18 CLASS OF 1878 

JACOB WINFRED VAN KEUREN. 

Deceased. 

He entered college in 1874, but did not graduate, leaving in 1876. He 
was a bookkeeper by profession, and his residence was in Utica, N. Y. 

VANDERBILT SPADER VOORHEES. 

New Brunswick, N. J. 

Son of Charles H. Voorhees, M.D., County Physician for sixteen 
years, surgeon in the Union Army 1862-65, president of the Middlesex 
County Medical Society, and of Charlotte Boumonville, daughter 
of Antoine Bournonville, M.D., a distinguished French physician resid- 
ing in Philadelphia. He was born September 7, 1858, in New Bruns- 
wick, N. J. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Preparatory School. 
After one year in college he went into business. He resided in New 
York City from 1880 to 1887, and in New Brunswick from 1887 to the 
present time. He is president of the Voorhees Realty Company, New 
Brunswick, N. J. As president of the Elks' Building Corporation he laid 
the cornerstone of the Elks' Home, New Brunswick, in 1905. He is 
prominently connected with the New Brunswick Gun Club, the New 
Brunswick Boat Qub, the New Brunswick Lodge, 324, B. P. O. Elks, 
and a member of the Middlesex Automobile Club. He is a Democrat. 
His favorite sports are fishing, hunting, boating, and motoring. On .June 
7, 1905, he married, at South Amboy, N. J., Rachel A. Seward, daughter 
of Benjamin Seward, nephew of William H. Seward, Secretary of State 
under Abraham Lincoln. They have no children. His brother, Louis A. 
Voorhees '85, is a graduate of Rutgers. 

PETER DUMONT WHITENACK. 

Died March 25, 1901. 

Son of Abraham C. Whitenack. He entered college in 1874, but was 
obliged to leave in 1876 on account of ill health. He was a member of 
the Philoclean Literary Society. He died in Somerville, N. J., in 1901. 



Scientific Section 

JOHN BISHOP. 
Bishop Place, New Brunswick, N. J. 

Son of John Bishop and Garetta T. Cowenhoven. He was born in 
New Brunswick, N. J., on February 2, 1857, and was prepared for col- 
lege at the Rutgers Preparatory School. While in college he was a mem- 
ber of his class crew, a director of the Rutgers Boating Association, a 
member of the college baseball team, a director of the Football Associa- 
tion, and a member of the college football team. He was also a director 
of the Rutgers College Athletic Association. After graduation he studied 
law in the office of Abraham V. Schenck, in New Brunswick, N. J., from 
1879 to 1882, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. From 1884 to 1901 
he practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri. In, 1901 he returned to New 
Jersey, and was admitted as counsellor at law. From 1901 to the present 
time he has practiced law in Newark, N. J. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He is unmarried. 

EDWARD DURYEE. 
122 S. Occidental Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Son of George Duryee, M.D., and of Mary E. Mathews. He was 
born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, N. Y., June 1, 1858. He lived later 
in Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y., Rahway, N. J., and New York City. 
He was prepared for college in schools of New York and Rahway. He 
entered the Sophomore class in 1875, and graduated as fourth honor man 
in his class. After graduation he held the position of chemist for smelt- 
ing companies in New Jersey, New Mexico, and Colorado. He then be- 
came Assistant General Secretary for the New York Y. M. C. A., and 
later General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., first at Auburn, then at TSTew- 
buryport, Mass. In the following years he became chemist for the Cali- 
fornia Portland Cement Company, cement expert for the U. S. Reclama- 
tion Service, and cement expert for the Los Angeles Acqueduct. For a 
number of years he has been manager of the Rex Plaster Company, 
manufacturers of gypsum and magnesite plasters, at Los Angeles. He has 
received the degree of C.E. at Rutgers. He is a member of the Presby- 
terian Church, and in politics is a Progressive. He was married in 1887, 
at Newburyport, Mass, to Annie P. Safford, daughter of Samuel H. Saf- 
ford and Lucretia B. Safford. He has published numerous technical 
papers in engineering journals of New York, Chicago, and California. 
He has designed and built several cement factories. Hs is the inventor of 
an improved hydraulic cement, a machine for making continuous rein- 
forced pipe, and a process for making a retarder for plaster. 

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20 CLASS OF 1878 

HENRY MONMOUTH HERBERT. 

Bound Brook, N. J. 

He was born in the year 1857. After graduation from college he was 
for five years a member of the Engineer's Corps of the United States 
Army, engaged in river and harbor work. For the five years following he 
was resident engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, in charge of location 
construction and maintenance of way. He was for some time a member 
of the State Board of Health of New Jersey, and was Chief of the Div- 
ision of Sewerage and Water Supplies. He has now been occupied for a 
number of years with a general engineering practice, including chiefly the 
designing, locating, and constructing of steam and electric railways, sew- 
erage systems, disposal plants, water works, and water filters. His resi- 
dence is in Bound Brook, N. J. 

WALTER LIVINGSTON LAWRENCE. 

Scranton, Pa. 

Son of Thomas Lawrence, a business man of Sussex County, N. J., 
who was a State Senator, a member of the State Board of Educa- 
tion, and of the State Board of Visitors of the Rutgers Scientific School, 
and of Margaret Rembert Taylor. He was born at Hamburg, Sussex 
County, N. J., March 10, 1857. He graduated from college with the third 
honor. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After leaving 
college he became a mining engineer at Pompton, N. J., one year ; Wal- 
wayande, N. J., 1879-1880; New Hamburg, N. J., 1880-1883; Burden, 
N. Y., 1883-1886, and Scranton, Pa., 1886 to the present time. He has 
held the positions of assistant superintendent, Hudson River Ore and 
Iron Co., secretary-treasurer of the Northern Coal and Iron Co., and 
real estate agent, of the Delaware & Hudson Co. He is a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Republican. His chief 
amusement is growing flowers. On June 6, 1883, he married Laura Lovell 
Brown, daughter of John H. Brown and Lucy Lovell, at Wortendyke, 
N. J. Their children are: Jeannette Wilson, born August 3, 1884; Lovell, 
born December 2, 1887; and Morris, born February 27, 1897. 

FRANKLIN TOWNSEND LENT. 

Sterling, Mass. 

Son of David B. Lent and Louise M. Lent. He was born at Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., on March 3, 1855, and was prepared for college at the 
Poughkeepsie Military Institute. While in college he was coach for the 
crew, and a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity, and at graduation was 
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After graduation he studied archi- 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION 21 

tecture for two years in New York Cit}'. Since 1883 he has lived at Colo- 
rado Springs, Cranford, N. J., Boston, Thousand Islands, N. Y., Leomin- 
ster, Mass., and since 1914 at Thousand Islands. He is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and is a Republican in politics. He is a Fellow 
Royal of the Canadian Institute of Architecture. His avocation is yacht- 
ing. In 1902 he married Fannie Dean, at Gananogue, Ontario. They have 
one child, Dean Lent, born May 22, 1907. He is the author of "Sound 
Sense in Suburban Architecture," published in 1902, "Sensible Suburban 
Residences," 1903, and "Suburban Homes and Camps," 1905, all three 
books being published by the O. T. Comstock Company, of New York, 

ROBERT WOODWORTH PRENTISS. 
Died, April, 1913. 

Son of Charles Gould Prentiss, a bookkeeper, and Sarah Elizabeth 
Arnold. Through the Gould family he was related to Charles Sumner. 
He was born in Brighton, Mass., on January 30, 1857. He resided in his 
boyhood in New York City, and for two years attended a Brooklyn High 
School. His father removed to New Brunswick in 1872, and he took his 
last two years of preparation for college in the New Brunswick High 
School. He distinguished himself in college for scholarship, particularly 
in Mathematics. He graduated second honor man in his class, and was 
elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. As an undergraduate 
he was editor of the Targum and of the Scarlet Letter, a member of the 
varsity baseball team, and of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After gradu- 
ation he specialized in Mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University for 
three years. From 1881 to 1891 he was assistant to Prof. Simon New- 
comb in the Nautical Almanac Service, and professor of Physics in the 
Corcoran Scientific School from 1888 to 1891. From 1891 to the time of 
his death he was Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Rutgers. 
He held many official positions in learned and philanthropic societies. He 
was an active member of the Baptist Church, both in Washington and in 
New Brunswick, and superintendent of the Sunday School in Washing- 
ton from 1886 to 1891. In politics he was a Republican. His amuse- 
ments were chiefly tennis and roque. On December 17, 1885, he married 
Adah Emery Dodge, daughter of Alanson Hamilton Dodge and Adah 
Hamilton. Their children are: Elizabeth, born December 15, 1886 (de- 
ceased) ; Margaret Hamilton, born January 20, 1888; Robert Hamilton, 
horn July 27, 1889 (deceased) ; Arthur Arnold, born September 30, 1890; 
Paul Dudley, born December 30, 1892; Alanson Dodge, born February 
25, 1895; and Charlotte, born September 13, 1900 (deceased). He was 
the author of numerous articles published in papers and learned maga- 
zines. He was a member of Astronomical and Astro-physical Society of 
America, and Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. 



22 CLASS OF 1878 

CORNELIUS CLARKSON VERMEULE. 

East Orange, N. J. 

Son of Adrian Vermeule, builder, farmer, and mercant, and of Maria 
Veghte. His ancestors were refugees from Antwerp to Zeeland in the 
religious wars of the sixteenth century. Adrian Vermeule, the first 
American settler, was "voorleser" of the Harlem and Bergen Reformed 
Churches, 1699-1735. From 1567 until the American Revolution, eight 
generations of his ancestors fought for their rights and liberties against 
Spaniards, French, and English. He was born September 5, 1858, at 
New Brunswick, N. J. He was prepared for college at the Rutgers Pre- 
paratory School. In college he maintained a high scholarship and won 
the Bowser prize for the best thesis at graduation. He was also editor 
of the Targum. Since graduation he has resided at New Brunswick, 
1878-88; New York City, 1888-97, and East Orange from 1897 to the 
present time. He was topographer in charge of the geological survey of 
New Jersey, 1878-88, and consulting engineer to the present time. He 
has been constructing or consulting engineer for many cities and private 
corporations in the United States and Cuba from 1888 to the present, 
Topographer of the United States Geological Survey, 1884-88, and con- 
sulting engineer of the Department of Public Works, Cuba, 1884-1911. 
He received the degree of Civil Engineer from Rutgers College in 1880. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics is an Inde- 
pendent. His avocations are historical research and practical civic im- 
provements. On June 7, 1888, he married, at New York City, CaroHne 
Carpenter Reed, daughter of Horatio Blake Reed, Colonel of the 5th 
Artillery, U. S. A., and 22d Cavalry, U. S. A., and of Alida Carpenter. 
Their children are: Cornelius Clarkson, Jr., born September 26, 1895, 
and Warren Carpenter, born October 10, 1898. Two great-uncles gradu- 
ated from Rutgers, Cornelius C. Vermeule in 1812, and Frederick Ver- 
meule in 1814. He is the author of many monographs and technical 
articles, covering a wide range of subjects relating to topography, water 
supply, water power, drainage, and other engineering problems. 



SEYMOUR MORTON LARY. 



He entered college in 1874, but remained only one year, leaving in 
1875. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After leaving col- 
lege he attended Packard's Business College in New York City, and the 
Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, N. J. In 18S5 he was the proprietor of 
the New York and Paterson Express Line. 



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JOHN PERRINE MAYNARD. 
After leaving college he took up mercantile pursuits. His present 
address is unknown. 

OSCAR HARTWELL MAYNARD. 

He entered college in 1874, but left before graduation. While in 
college he was a member of the college baseball team and was also on the 
college football team. 

JOSEPH HEPBURN PARSONS. 
Talledega, Ala. 

Son of Lewis Eliphalet Parsons, a lawyer, Provisional Governor of 
Alabama in 1865, Speaker in the House of Representatives of Alabama, 
and United States District Attorney, and of Jane Crisman. His paternal 
ancestors were English, residing in New England. Related to this branch 
of the family were Theophilus Parsons, Jonathan Edwards, and Aaron 
Burr. His mother's ancestors were Scotch-Irish. His maternal great- 
grandfather. Colonel McDowell, commanded a regiment at the battle of 
Kings Mountain in the Revolution. He was born February 10, 1854, at 
Talledega, Alabama, and was prepared for college at the local schools of 
that place. He entered college in 1874, remaining only about one year. 
During that time he was captain of the class crew. From Rutgers he 
went to West Point for a short time, and in 1877 went to Columbia Law 
College, graduating in 1879 with the degree of B.A. He took a post- 
graduate course at Columbia, receiving the degree of M.A. in 1881. In 
July, 1881, he was admitted to the Bar in Washington, D. C. From 1883 
to 1887 he resided in Dakota, where he was a member of the Federal and 
State Bars of Dakota. From 1887 to the present time he has resided in 
Talledega, Alabama. He is a member of the Federal and State Bars of 
Alabama. In politics he is a Republican. He is unmarried. He is the 
author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, chiefly on political 
issues and industrial development, and also of a book, published in 1914, 
entitled "Historical Papers Upon Men and Events of Rare Interest in the 
Napoleonic Epoch." 

CHARLES ARTHUR REED. 

Plainfield, N. J. 

Son of Hugh Burgess Reed, a merchant, and Colonel of the 44th 
Indian Volunteers, and of Anne E. Thompson. He was born December 
4, 1857, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and resided later at Neshanic and Rari- 
tan, N. J. He was prepared for college in the Rutgers Preparatory 
School. He is a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. After one year 
he left college to study law in the office of John D. Bartine, Somerville, 
N. J., and later in the Columbia College Law School. He was admitted 



24 CLASS OF 1878 

to the New Jersey Bar in June, 1882, as attorney, and in February, 1888, 
as counsellor, and to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1883. Since leaving college 
he has resided in Raritan, 1875-87; North Plainfield, 1887-1906, and in 
Plainfield from 1906 to the present time. Besides maintaining a large 
legal practice, he has served in the State Assembly, 1896, as State Sena- 
tor, 1897-1902, and was president of the Senate in 1899. He has held 
various offices in professional and social organizations. He is a member 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and is a Republican. His favorite 
sport is golf. On October 4, 1887, he married, at Somerville, N. J., Kath- 
arine Longstreet Clark, daughter of Alvah A. Clark and Anna M. Van- 
derbeck. Their children are : Arthur C, born in 1888 ; Madeline, born 
in 1890; and Hugh Burgess, born in 1898. His brother, Louis T. Reed, 
was a member of the class of 1880 in Rutgers. 

GEORGE FIELD RIGGS. 

Carlisle, Pa. 

Son of George Smith Riggs and Caroline Matilda Field. His paternal 
great-grandfather was Quartermaster General of the Maryland Militia in 
the War of 1812, and his maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Osgood, 
was a member of the Continental Congress, and first Postmaster General 
of the United States. He was born on Staten Island, N. Y., October 30, 
1853. He later resided in Baltimore, Md., Peekskill, P'oughkeepsie, and 
at St. John's School, Ossining, N. Y. He lived for a time in England, 
France, and Switzerland. He was prepared for college in Poughkeepsie, 
and at St. John's School, Ossining. Before entering college he made 
a voyage around the world in a sailing ship. He entered college 
in 1874, but left after one year to enter the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, from which institution he graduated with the degree 
of B.S. in 1879. He has held many civil engineering positions in locating 
and constructing railroads, in municipal surveys, inland waterways, and 
in United States river and harbor work. He is a member of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and is a Democrat. On June 6, 1908, he married, at 
Portsmouth, Va., Elizabeth Nash Hatton, daughter of E. A. Hatton. 
They have no children. 

LOUIS V. SNYDER. 

Died January 30, 1882. 

He was born in 1857. While in college he was prominent in athletics, 
being a member of the football and baseball teams and the crew of the 
college, and'the captain of the baseball team during one year. He was a 
director of the Targum Association and a member of the Chi Phi Frater- 
nity. After leaving college he entered upon a business career. He died 
at Elizabeth, N. J., on January 30, 1882. 



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